Minimum Wage: Non-payment

Treasury written question – answered on 14th September 2022.

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Photo of Stephen Kinnock Stephen Kinnock Shadow Minister (Home Office) (Immigration)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many reports from (a) employees and (b) third parties involving suspected non-compliance of employers with the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 and related legislation were received by HMRC in each year since 2015.

Photo of Richard Fuller Richard Fuller The Economic Secretary to the Treasury

HMRC considers all complaints from workers, conducts a program of proactive compliance activities, and delivers a program of educational activities to support employers to get it right.

Anyone not being paid what they are entitled to can complain online at: https://www.gov.uk/minimum-wage-complaint or can contact the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service on 0300 123 1100. HMRC will not tell an employer who complained without the person’s consent.

Year

Worker complaints

Third party information

2015/16

1,516

418

2016/17

2,573

789

2017/18

6,027

2,154

2018/19

4,924

2,351

2019/20

3,332

2,413

2020/21

2,771

2,286

2021/22

3,310

2,944

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